Quotes About Overrated

Roxanne Bland, The Underground

In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

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None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.

This 'Whoa, Nellie!' thing is overrated. There were all kinds of stories going around. People said I had a mule in Georgia named Nellie. Well, we had a mule in Georgia, but her name was Pearl.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Huh. Since we've got all the answers, I sometimes wonder why we follow these bastards." "I hear a lot of talk about loyalty." "Since we've a dozen dead masters between us, and both had a hand in more'n one of the downfalls, I feel no shame in saying that loyalty is overrated.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best excuse for not writing. "Why should I get writer's block?" asked the mischievous Roger Simon. "My father never got truck driver's block.

Faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.

Faith is the unstated component in the work of a leader and I think faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.